*Chernobyl Ep. 3* KILLED ME... TOO MANY TEARS😭
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This episode destroyed me... I genuinely did not know what to do with myself after it. I felt so anxious and panicked it was an extremely difficult watch. It seems as though the show might become more and more difficult to watch but I commend everyone working on the show for its ability to instill such emotions in a viewer.
I can't say I hope you enjoy watching it due to its heaviness in nature, but I hope you enjoy watching it with me. :)
thank you everyone.
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Chernobyl Ep. 3 KILLED ME... TOO MANY TEARS😭
#chernobyl #reaction #commentary - Zábava
It's like; you can watch blood and gore all day when you know it's fiction (like walking dead) and not bat an eye, but when you know that it's real, it hits so much harder
True, and it also helps that the makers of this show did a DAMN good job on the makeup.
@@HollywoodNeu FOR REAL THO!!
yeah .. like zombies don't phase me at all anymore but this stuff is so awful it makes you sick :(
The level of gore on their injuries has actually been embellished quite a bit, radiation poisoning isn't this graphic because it's mostly internal. But it certainly is fatal.
@@Cifer77 Idk, it was said that one of the men from the control room basically had no face left as flesh had rotted away and the wife of that poor firefighter we follow in this episode as interviewed for a book about it where it seems like reality was worse than what we saw or at least pretty much as gruesome but maybe different. There's also been people who's died of Acute radiation syndrome without showing many external signs outside of radiation burns. I'm assuming it can affect people differently and some of it could be because of the immune system going haywire, hard to say really.
The small scenes of kindness are what always stood out to me the most especially when she dabbed his face with gauze to clean the blood from his face it made me cry. Imagine, him being seen as nothing more than a dangerous object by everyone else and this lady who doesn’t know him, asks for his side of the story, listens to him not just from journalistic capacity but listening intently to him, and when he starts bleeding she dabbed his face. It must’ve meant so much to him. And you can tell by the way he made eye contact with her, he wasn’t given any humanity from anyone except her. That’s exactly what he needed before he died
No apologies for crying. A truly touching reaction. Episode 3 is considerably powerful, with the concrete burial scene and the music.
EXCEPT That its a complete work of fiction as molten lava touches lava all the time and doesnt explode. complete horsehit.
@@carlosrivas1629 "lava touches lava all the time and nothing explode" wow, now that some science understanding...
@@fizz9476 yeah smartass, molten materials radioactive does not explode touching water, most of the radioactive stuff is cools down in water.
@@fizz9476 czcams.com/video/SsdLDFtbdrA/video.html
@@carlosrivas1629 the radioactive "stuff" as nothing to do with the explosion (and were not talking about the initial explosion here, the second one they feared when the lava could reach the underground water tanks) lava or anything that hot hitting water turns the water instantly into steam, the steam is the explosion "smartass".... And also the quantity matter, there not talking about 1 gallon of lava into millions of gallons of water, that would do nothing. But alot of lava into alot of water and BOOM...It's actually pretty simple to understand...
Fun fact about the Minister of Coal: the real guy started working in the mines at the age of 15 and looked more like one of the miners when the incident occurred
Lyudmilla Ignatenko's interview in Voices From Chernobyl explains why she was holding her husband's shoes at the funeral - the full interview is absolutely harrowing, here's an excerpt:
"At the morgue they said, 'Want to see what we'll dress him in?' I did! They dressed him up in formal wear, with his service cap. They couldn't get shoes on him because his feet had swelled up. They had to cut up the formal wear, too, because they couldn't get it on him, there wasn’t a whole body to put it on. The last two days in the hospital-pieces of his lungs, of his liver, were coming out of his mouth. He was choking on his internal organs."
damn fuck. the last sentence is just pure horror
Another firefighter in an interview described how he got up from his bed to leave (can't remember where to), and the skin from his foot slid off like a sock.
err he suffered from some skin + digestive tract + lung necrosis but nowhere as bad as in series ( not liver) .... and definitely not to degree where you would call it incomplete body .. it wasn't actually effect of radiation as described in show but damaged immunity = local spots of unlimited infection
keep in mind doctors from incident talked about it after fall of soviet union
@@alanea5860 I copied & pasted Lyudmilla's description of Vasily's condition straight from my FB2 copy of Voices From Chernobyl 🤷
@@GF_Baltar yeah trauumatized wife in shock is perfect source for informations:D
maybe check one of the doctors who treated them instead lol
czcams.com/video/m1GEPsSVpZY/video.html
ot you can check other victims burried in lead coffins
for example photos of volodomyr savenkov exist
The shot at 17:01 is so easy to overlook, for those who don't know that it is an homage to the book titled "Voices from Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexievich. In the book, Lyudmilla says that she was holding Vasily's shoes because his feet had become so swollen that they wouldn't fit in the shoes.
So much unnecessary destruction and loss of life, all because of inaction and blame shifting, a theme that was too often, reoccurring in the Soviet Union .
Thank you so much for clearing that up. I had been wondering since I saw the show why she was holding shoes; was it a Russian custom? Also the other mourners seem to be holding various things.
This book is a hard read. O remember the story about a man that went back to “stole” his door because everyone in his family that died had a wake (funeral) in that same door
@@Sawyer1982OAC It is indeed a hard read but a must for anyone interested in the events and the pain these people went through.
Cancer, loss of family, friends and loved ones, excruciating pain for those with ARS, life long health problems for those who were "lucky" to avoid it.
The voices from Chernobyl *must* be heard, lest we repeat the events.
The book was heartbreaking, I stopped at several times just to cry my eyes out.
scary to think they held back on showing how gruesome radiation poisoning is, it’s much worse in reality.
The technician (Akimov) she interviews where we don't get to see him had his entire face melted off. I'm glad they toned it down.
The Human mind can only numb the pain so much... After that numbing phase... That human disappears.
It's tragic as well. Even the man who died from that nuclear fuel accident in Japan, they tried every experimental treatment available and none sadly worked... one, the bone marrow replacement from a donor his sister, worked for a very short period of time but the bone marrow died again... they hoped they could get his body to start generating new cells again.
Mercury poisoning is a Thing too among Others *(Toxic Elements),* Out there. Thats oof Some scary Amnetia anyone Can Get.
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4:14 Is a Swedish (Actor);
Superb Male Gourbutroov ^^
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Love Dat Part too 6:55
@@Alte.Kameraden that was torture.
This show was incredibly crafted, every episode kills part of us, slowly, just like radiation. We feel the dread and terror. Just incredible. Some more facts about this episode:
- People exposed to radiation were not radioactive themselves - unless they inhale radioactive particles into thier lungs, but that is mostly absorbed by their flesh and dose is small and with time particles are exhaled - their clothes were got rid of, body showered and decontaminated, so it is safe to touch them and be with them. However they are not safe with you, as their health begins to deteriorate, their immune system fails so they can be killed by the illnesses you carry, simple cold can be deadly to them.
- Ignatenko, Tuptonov and Akimov were looking even worst in real life than in the show. Extremely worse. Skin and flesh would come off thier bones, Akimov's face was unrecognisable with visible bone and only his wife was able to understand what he was saying, Ignatenko would coughed out parts of his lungs and internal organs, his skin and flesh were falling out when his wife was touching him. And of course massive internal bleedings as veins decomposed. So what you saw was not that bad.
- Minister of Coal was in fact a miner before so he had huge respect from other miners.
- The masks works, they protect from inhaling radioactive particles which is etreamly dangerous - Alfa radiation can be stopped by piece of paper or skin safly, but when it's emitted in lungs, it's all absorbed by lungs.
- they take dirt out using minecarts and rails, you can see it
The most harrowing thing is that after seeing the physical effects of the radiation sickness in the show you then find out that the reality is so much worse. I don't understand how they could let them die so slowly and painfully when they know there's nothing they can do for them, I always hear Legasov in my head shouting "I promise you by tomorrow morning you'll be begging for that bullet!" and can't help thinking that giving those men a quick death would be the most merciful course of action.
"- The masks works,..." In theory. yes. However Soviet manufacturing standards where notoriously bad, especially for low cost manufactured goods. Odds are those masks were going be of negligible help. He was just being honest.
@@Mauther Actually, you are so wrong. Soviet made stuff for military, was actually a top notch quality contrary to the Western propaganda and belief. There never was "spare money cuts" when military was in question. Every piece of equipment in Soviet military was made to last and be reused and used in the worst case scenario. Were there a slack in a quality production for general public? Indeed there was. However when military was in question, it was really other way around. Soviet space program is a case and point. To this day traveling to ISS and back - the safest way is to use Soyuz spacecraft and rockets. The most safest record of them all. Compare that to Space Shuttle program? Oh yikes... Anyway the fact that NASA today has to use Russian rocket engines says it all. I do have some of the USSR military items in my collection, including a Geiger counter. It's over 40 years old and still works and is more accurate compared to anything I bought that could measure radiation. The leather casing (made out of the REAL leather) stinks like hell! It's boxy and looks ugly and outdated, but damn is that thing accurate. That thing wasn't cheap and it wasn't made with lower standards in mind. It's just that Soviet equipment gets a lot of bad reputation. Like the most famous bad reputation of them all - "AK isn't accurate". Sure sure...
@@adrianshephard224 You are of course correct. When people hear the phrase "Made in Russia" they immediately think quality. Soviet classics like the Zil automobile left German and Japanese automotive engineers scratching their head. The fact that the USSR had to covertly procure cabinet video games because the electronics in a standard Pac-Man cabinet were more advanced than anything produced domestically. The Soviet space program is rightly lauded for its safety record. Sure there was Soyuz 1 which crashed when it's chute didn't open, killing the pilot. Or Soyuz 11, which killed all three cosmonauts when the locking mechanism failed after leaving a space station. Then there was the Nedellin accident which killed more than 100 when it blew up on the launch pad. Or the 1980 Plesetsk disaster which killed at least 48 people. To the specifics of Soviet protective gear, there was the infamous GP-5 gas mask, which besides being a not particularly effective NBC gear, also contained asbestos in the filter itself. Even after the cancer risk was identified, masks were found contained asbestos into the late 80's. And if there was one thing that was proven in Chernobyl it was the reliability and effectiveness of Soviet radiological equipment.
@@Mauther Before you become a "smart-ass" at least read what I wrote. You want to bash a Russian space program? So tell me why are Americans till this day are hitchhiking a ride to ISS using that "unsafe and terrible" Soyuz seat? Tell me why NASA is using Soviet designed RD-180 engines? Because they are the BEST? If you are about to bash a safety record of a Soyuz, let me laugh at you back, when the crew of Apollo 1 burned alive on the ground because of the "great" technology you got there. Do I have to mention how you lost 14 astronauts in Columbia and Challenger that burned out in the atmosphere? So much of a "safety record" of the (in)famous Space Shuttle. I ain't even gonna go to the point that you needed an ex Nazi Von Braun to get you to space in the first place. Laughable at BEST! As for Chernobyl, it's been dealt with within 5 years. How about a Fukushima? Every 24h we have estimation of 250 tons of highly radioactive toxic water escaping the facility for the last 11 years since the accident took place? Why don't you westerners don't deal with that issue, when you are so capable. Show us HOW! Oh wait, you CANNOT? So we will see continuous poisoning of Pacific for another 50 years before you could patch the leaking holes? So much of your "containment building" and "superior equipment" crap that you have been bragging about for years. As for asbestos. It's cancer-like properties if anything are overinflated. My grandfather worked in asbestos mine and he had 93 years when he died of a heart attack (not some cancer). AS long as the asbestos isn't burning (and a very slim chance at that as asbestos is one of best known materials for isolation and is one of the best naturally fire-resistant materials that you can find). When we at it, my entire house roof is made out of the salonit, asbestos type of tile. As long as it isn't burning or being cut into powder air-worthy particles, you have nothing to worry about. You guys are brainwashed with overinflated information that you never double checked.
Your empathy for the couple was really touching Vicky. My wife of 10 years passed away in August at the age of 29. She was diagnosed in 2017 diabetic gastroperisis. For 3 years I watched her slowly degrade In every way. Suffer unimaginably. Alot of people criticize the wife for touching him but I can tell you without a doubt, radiation of any amount wouldn't have stoped me from touching her , kissing her and not letting her die alone.
Even if you were pregnant and knew you would be dooming your unborn child?
I'm.... just... sorry really means nothing to the sorts of the topic you just stated. I'm more than sorry my brother. I love you my brother. Screaming at the sky is warranted, but you are going to make it. Believe me homie you'll make it.
I don't think her not being allowed to touch him was because of radiation like the dialogue implied. I believe that, because the radiation completely demolishes the bone marrow and immune system, coupled with the rest of his body's deterioration, he and the others are *INSANELY* vulnerable to the *slightest* bit of contamination. With his skin falling apart he's like a giant open wound. The slightest bit of bacteria from her hands or viral particles exhaled could find its way into his system and run rampant with pretty much no resistance whatsoever.
Going back to the initial thought process though, I didn't understand it as thoroughly since I've never been in a relationship until VKunia talked about the helplessness of hearing him scream. And... yeah, if I was in love with someone I think all sense of rationality and self-preservation would've left me in a heartbeat. Depending on the circumstances I'd probably have to be physically chained down and sedated just to stop me from trying to see her.
Well the ionised or radiated person was not hazardous. The visitor or family member was. Radiation weakens your immune system and a single cold could kill the victim.
Miner chief is my favourite person in the show right after Boris Shcherbina. He has so much sass, rightfully so. Also everyone is saying that the next episode is heaviest, but for me this episode is heavier. Maybe because we see the gradual turning of these poor people to human jelly (no disrespect), while we don't see animals actually getting killed due to camera work and we don't see a minimal amount of dead animals during truck scene.
Jelly has gelatin, gelatin made of crushed bones
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(Just felt like it no hate)
Mines always came with a shower block for the men ending their shifts to get clean before going home. Presumably they also had lockers and clothes to change into as well. Certainly in the British mining industry, that was the case. Plus coal tar could be used to make coal tar soap, which is particularly good and has a nice smell. Miners in the USSR were relatively venerated, as the acme of proletarians - tough, militant, fearless, bonded by teamwork and shared danger. So they were relatively highly paid workers, and the CPSU found it very difficult to say no to them, because of their high status in working class history. These miners are from Tula, but another big mining area was the Donbass, where that fighting spirit endures and was important in preventing the coup regime from successfully ethnically cleansing the regime from 2014 onwards.
As someone who has met people affected by Chernobyl most of what i have seen in the series did in fact happen and the experience of meeting people affected by Chernobyl is so humbling and it has taught me not to take my health life or freedoms for granted yet it also shows how we must ensure never to repeat the mistakes of history.
Such a heavy show to watch, but must be seen by everyone at least once. If you where not alive in the 80's this show goes a long way to show the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union.
That's a critical reason why today's kids should watch this show. This is what happens when there are no checks and balances, and bureaucrats have unlimited power.
@@thomaswilliamson298 True. I once gathered my school friends to watch it and only 2 showed up cause the others for some reason thought it was uninteresting. i'm still annoyed at those who didn't come.
Actually, unfortunately this show does not tell you that much about the Soviet command structure, it is very dramatized. When 3 mile island happened they had somewhat similar problems. Whether it be a large business or you central state, there will be a lot of hush hush. The major difference between the USA and the USSR is that we do not operate at near police state levels, whereas they never knew a world without one.
If this episode 3 killed you, then you can't watch episode 4. It too painful and horrible to watch. If you gonna watch episode 4. Please do not wear makeup and bring a tissue box. You almost finish it.
She’s been seeing a lot of penises!
Nothing more terrible than reality 🥺
nah there are shocking scenes .left but they are less and less common
I would 2nd the tissue thing. A box at least.
Came to say the same thing. If episode 3 killed her, ... maybe she doesn't need to watch 4.
That scene in the KGB prison was filmed in an actual KGB prison in Lithuania. The floors of the cells were sloped downward so that they could be filled with water, preventing the inmates from sleeping.
I really like how this series captures the heroic nature of those who sacrificed in response to the tragedy. It's maybe trite to say, but first responders are the closest to super heroes one can find in this world. Even as the immediate danger fades, it still takes heroes to clean up the mess and face the brutally unpleasant tasks that remain. The next episode is my favorite, seeing the young men coping with the cleanup is amazing. The stoic strength of the Slavic people in the face of unimaginable hardship represents the very best in humanity.
Oh my gosh, I wept right along with you. For me this is the most heartbreaking of the episodes, although they're all sad, they all make you cry.
1:33 - They could have made the sound kittens purring and meowing, and it would still be terrifying because of what that sound means.
That moment when you went from crying to having a giggle about the miners' dongs 😀
I especially like it when you accused Scherbina of totally checking out the chief miner's ass. Poor Boris, made into a gomik (= gay in Russian) by VKunia.
It is a truly remarkable series. How tense, angry, sad, and just emotional it makes you feel is incredible. And the fact that it is a very accurate telling of what happened is amazing. Love you honest reaction.
The fact that you are so emotionally moved means you have a good heart. There is no shame.
The next episode is really heavy so if you need to take breaks please do.
My first military line unit, they'd just come back from overseas. First time I saw a 25mm casing, it was from a training round. I thought it was cool. Veteran infantry guy says if you ever see one when you deploy, confiscate it. Armor piercing depleted uranium rounds were used when he was there. Casing looks like a small water bottle and civilians would use them for that. Nobody thought it was an issue until birth defects began to rise. It's like the scientist said... They got "Not a lot, but enough to damage your DNA". Drinking from a toxic cup for a few years, and washing it only by hand. You see one overseas, take no chances. Confiscate it and hand them whatever cash you have at gunpoint. If you're terp ain't with you, they won't understand, but you're doing them a favor. You don't want to have some hospital scene in your future.
6:31 Vicky : "That suit is SO 80's!"
Me and workers : "That suit is SO clean! Let's correct this!"
This series only gets more and more horrific as it goes on, and more light is shed on to the impact. Do not apologise for crying, it’s tragic from start to finish, we were all crying. Thanks for reacting to it, it’s important that people are still aware of the damage we can cause when we’re not careful enough.
"The geiger counter is one of the most terrifying sounds"
100 years ago, people would have thought "Oh, that is an interesting sound". Nowadays, yeah, its more like "Oh god, we're all gonna die!"
Honestly, crying while watching this episode is perfectly normal. I always cry in an uncontrollable way during the funerals scene. Just watching their coffin disappearing in the concrete and seeing their famillies devastated always gets me. It such a senseless waste of human lives.
This is one of the best mini series ever done. It makes me proud also with a couple of swedish actors and a swedish director. It was shot in Lithuania I think, where they have similar buildings from that time period. I also remember the accident. I was 12 at the time and had no clue then, bur learned after as I grew older. When the series came I was devastated. This could have been so much worse if not for the brave men containing it. We had radiation downfall in Sweden, but not enough to be directly lethal. In some areas you still need to be careful when eating berries or mushrooms from the woods. love your sincere reaction of this.
i love you for how much you know about this stuff :) great reaction
Acute Radiation Sickness is definitely the thing that scares me the most.
9:52 same way its always been done till machines came along push carts and tiny railways
The problem with radiation poisoning is not that the patients become radioactive, but they need to be protected from the outside infections.
This is not correct. If a person has inhaled or ingested a lot of radioactive material, he may well become a source of radiation himself, and thus a danger to others.
Never say sorry for having empathy and compassion
Oh my sweet summer child.... you ain't seen nothin yet.
I had forgot the make up for the last stages of radiation sickness. So gruesome.
I was on a trip in Western Germany when Chernobyl happened. We heard that something had happened in the USSR, and that a cloud of radiation had swept in over my home country, Sweden. It was tough back then, not knowing what would happen next.
Lol I believe “trust but verify” was literally the kgbs motto
Ep 4 is hard but hope you stick it out to the end of the series, I'm liking the sciency reaction.
I remember the day it happened and the following weeks, we spent an uneasy time in the UK checking the wind and weather patterns ... had to stop typing as you've just burst into tears.. time to go to your happy place if you can x
Wow!...she's the sweetest and most thoughtful young lady....her tears and honesty are so touching, i empathetically cry along with her, as i watch her reaction. I wish i could give her a hug.
The entire series is a master work of filmmaking.
0:17 I believe "Open Wide O Earth" is either a Biblical verse or a line from a poem honoring the dead, and I think it was meant to symbolize both the miners digging under the plant and the burial at the end.
2:30 While Lyudmilla's actions in this episode were very foolish, she most likely didn't know what radiation can do. Whatever the case, make no mistake, she LOVED her husband.
2:50 Oh, thanks to this show, EVERYONE knows too much about this stuff. You're hoping the last time she sees her husband he's okay.... Oh, kid, I don't envy you what's coming.
3:55 That's something I never want to imagine.
5:07 By this time, Shcherbina knows that Legasov is right; they have to ramp up the evacuations. But he also knows they're always being watched; as he points out, the KGB no longer cares if Legasov knows they're following him. They HAVE to be careful what they say.
6:10 I laughed. A little gallows humor is good for the soul.
7:00 Those miners were heroes. Once they knew what was going on, they didn't hesitate. I've heard that, ultimately, that heat exchanger wasn't needed, and a lot of those miners died of radiation poisoning. The surviving miners say that they are glad it wasn't needed... and they'd do it again in a heartbeat, to be safe. Pure bada**.
9:30 I don't think Legasov or Shcherbina were complaining about Glukhov's bluntness. One thinks that when Shcherbina said, "They're all like that," Legasov was all, "Good. We need more brutally honest and tough men like these."
10:34 Again, no problem with some gallows humor.
11:35 And again, foolhardy or not, Lyudmilla LOVED Vasily.
12:10 You gotta love the "Are you KIDDING me?!" looks on Legasov's and Shcherbina's faces.
12:34 Glukhov is disgusted that the men likely won't be looked after, but he knows it's not Shcherbina's fault, and he appreciates Shcherbina's honesty.
13:12 Khomyuk gave Toptunov a little bow before she left, which I think was a silent thank-you and good-bye.
17:10 Jessie Buckley's performance was amazing.
I don't blame you for crying. This whole series is rough. If you haven't seen it already, I'd better warn you... Episode 4 is going to be BRUTAL.
I believe "Trust but verify" was a quote originally from Ronald Reagan. The Irony. Don't apologize for showing extreme emotion. The scope of the tragedy here literally defines the term. Awaiting your review of the final two episodes
i heard that one of the people who was really badly hurt by the radiation...when a nurse picked up his arm, only the bone went up, everything else remained on the bed.
*ugh* this was a HORRENDOUSLY sad episode :( Hope you did something happy afterward to help counter the awful :(
I wanted to repeat this since I just found this cannel a few days ago when I saw your reaction to the first episode. You are the most scientifically literate young media reactor I have seen on CZcams and I appreciate you for that.
"Trust but verify" is actually a Russian proverb (it rhymes in the original Russian), but it was popularized by Ronald Reagan, after an American academic repeated it to him. Reagan used it as a catchphrase during nuclear disarmament talks with the Soviet Union, and it must have annoyed Gorbachev no end.
In Germany they say: "Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser" _(Trust is good, control (as in: verification) is better)._
@@o.b.7217In other circles they say, "never be compassionate to the point of being stupid."
Доверяй но проверяй? 🙂I've heard my Russian wife saying it.
Almost 600.000 people were participants in the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident consequences. The scene with lines of man was a draft of 'liquidators'.
Yeah I think they didn't do the best job of showing the scale of the operation.
At 13:25 they couldn't show Akimov's face because at that time he no longer had one, there was just a skull with a tongue in the mouth, and although you hear him speaking in the episode in reality his wife had to translate for him as only she could understand his speech.
This series should be in the Non fiction horror genre if it exist.
VKunia still has the Happiness for all Mankind to look forward to.
Totally being creeped out by that dude in the raincoat behind you. 😂
I too felt tense when watching this for the first time. I was born in 81 and have vague memories of news reports of the accident. It feels crazy to me that this happened in my lifetime!
😭that was crazy Vicky
Chernobyl isn't a series to enjoy as rather experience. I'm glad you chose to experience it, even though it has very difficult moments to watch.
Agreed. I don't think I'll ever watch the entire series again. Individual scenes and maybe episodes, but the whole thing is just brutal. A necessary experience. I always wonder about people who say they love this series. I know what they mean, but love is a weird word to choose.
ARS (Acute Radiation Sickness) is perhaps the worst way imaginable to die. You become a living corpse and are lucid the entire time until your body becomes poisonous sludge. In the last episode when Legasov told a pilot if he flew over the core he would be "begging for a bullet" it is no exaggeration
My friend grandfather had it worse... He was a submariner and due to spending significant part of his life under high pressure (at least that was the medical theory at the time) he developed some particular nasty cancers/something else... Basically he was rotting alive for several years. In last few years he could not even leave his bed...
Honestly it would be much more humane to just put a bullet in the old man and end his sufferings...
Nothing has changed in that country in the 21st century. Just a few months ago, hundreds of Russian soldiers had to dig trenches in the middle of the woods around the power plant in Chernobyl. They absolutely ignored the advice of the plant staff. And they stayed and slept there for almost a month. They had to evacuate all of them with severe radiation symptoms.
When Chernobyl blew up, the entire ground zero became a slow microwave. A conventional microwave will cook you alive in minutes. This is basically it, but much slower, irreversible, and painful.
(I wrote this at 2 minutes in. I'm now at 11 minutes, and holy jeez, I recommend mercy killing to that poor soul.)
If they nad a containment dome....the explosion would have been tragic but no catastrophic release into the environment
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
This series is difficult to get through. Hang in there
@VKunia I hope you’re having an amazing weekend! I love your kitty Miko. He’s so so cute! I even like what you do with your hair.
No need to say sorry for your comments - I like reading them. This series is so accurate (there are a few things changed for dramatic purposes, but these are trivial). Listening to you is like listening to me! My degree is in Applied Science (physics and maths), and I've worked with nuclear equipment at a hospital whilst doing undergraduate research - a long time ago... I shout out the same things at the screen that you do! So, please don't change, keep it up! btw I'm half Polish but hardly know the language I'm afraid. NS.
Fell in love with Jessica Buckley for her performance in "Glassgow" and her singing ability, this just made me lover her even more as an actress.
For me it was Taboo, I had never heard of her before that but loved her performance in it. Still hoping Tom Hardy makes Taboo 2 and she's in it.
2:27 - He wouldn't be "contageous". That's not how it works. You don't become radioactive yourself if you've been exposed to radiation after you've been hospitalized and cleaned. The belief that people who were exposed could be dangerous to others was a thing that rose after the Chernobyl accident but has no scientific basis.
6:59 - Though this scene is funny there's little reason for them to disrespect him since the minister of coal industries was a worker in the mining industry way before becoming minister.
I believe it's because radiation victims often have irradiated clothes so an association is made between proximity and harm when in fact it's just the clothes still on the person causing the harm to everyone. In fact the firefighters' clothes are still there in that pile in the basement of the hospital, and still a radioactive hotspot.
@@mcrvids6860 Yeah, exactly
This episode and the next are the most brutal but well-made of the entire show. You thought this one was bad? You won't stop crying at the next episode. You are right though, this show is an artistic masterpiece.
I wasn’t emotional at all when I watched Chernobyl when it came out. I loved through that time, and the eventual leaks of the truth, etc, so I knew exactly what would happen and was prepared for it.
However, watching your reaction to it has me getting emotional. I don’t know if it’s just seeing someone else so upset at the events, or maybe because your empathy comes through so genuinely, but whatever it is, I got far more emotional watching your reaction to the show than when I watched it myself.
I really like the coal minister scene. In a way dirtying him up to look like them can also be seen as them accepting him a little bit due to him telling them the truth - as much of it as he knew himself anyway - rather than going and coming back with more soldiers to force them.
It's kind of both disrespectful, but sort of respectful at the same time.
"Now you look like the minister of cloal - like one of us."
Were you really just surprised that the head of the KGB lied? oO
The good news is that this was the hardest episode to watch, so it'll become a bit easier from here on out... well, unless you are one of the people who has an easier time watching Humans suffer a lot than seeing animals suffer a bit.
Good luck watching the next episode…you’ll need it.
Those are rookie tears. You gotta pump those numbers up.
I JUST FINISHED reading "Midnight in Chernobyl." As horrifying as this show is, it is NOTHING compared to the book.
Boris' character grew on me. At the beginning of the series he seemed a bit too aggressive and almost like a bully. But then slowly you realize, he's just a guy who gets sent to these horrible situations and is expected to get results as efficiently as possible. When you have a job like that, you tend to be blunt and you don't tolerate bullshit. But he also comes to understand that he's out of his depth and begins to realize how important a man like Legosov actually is in this situation.
Really looking forward to the final 2 episodes. The director did a really great job especially in the final episode 5. Thats not to say that episode 4 is bad. Lets just say make sure u have tissues really close by they will be needed.
trust but verify - doveryai na proveryai. old Russian saying, used extensively by Gorbachev & a few memorable times by Reagan.
Yeah V, I feel you, so much devastation and pain in this episode, . . . The next one, . . . 😔😔😔💔💔💔
Be strong...this was a strong episode, specially the end, but like you're guessing, the worst is still to come....
I know this episode is heavy, but you really really need the tissues for the next one.
I know you get it, but when exposed to that much radiation it basically destroys your body's ability to generate new cells to replace the old as they die. You rot to death. That brief point in time where you appear to recover is the last of what's left of your healthy cells trying to rebuild, then after that you just rot apart.
Watching this I really felt for the firefighters, they didn't do anything to deserve this, they sacrificed themselves. And for that reality gave them the worst possible way to die; Slowly and extremely painful. I remember reading about Lt Pravik in Gregori Medvedev's book, he lay naked on an angled bed to keep him from choking on his own fluids under lights that would turn on and off to keep his body warm. His mouth was swollen to the point he couldn't talk and had to blink responses. Most of his skin was gone. His brown eyes were now blue from the radiation. He couldn't move, his body was riddled with cancers and was constantly defecating as his body tried to expel his internals as they decayed.
When that concrete truck shows up just feels like an added punch to the gut, like it's there to tell you your loved ones really are gone and you will never see them again.
If you could watch this episode and not feel a hole in your heart, you simply aren't human
Next one's gonna be harsh too.
_"they didn't do anything to deserve this"_
When will mankind get it through its thick skull that "deserving" is a myth? Never, it seems, because we're egomaniacs and the universe simply revolves around us homo sapiens, end of discussion.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps Well, nice, very nice. It's a very human emotion involved with deserving and not deserving. Whether this means something to the universe is irrelevant. It means something to humans. That's part of why emotions run so high for victims rather than wrongdoers.
@@panzerwolf494 _"It's a very human emotion involved with deserving and not deserving. Whether this means something to the universe is irrelevant. It means something to humans."_
_Yeah,_ it has to do with emotions, it's about ego, and _yeah,_ it means something to humans, it means wanting the universe to revolve around you. _But reality is_ no one on this planet "deserves" to eat or starve. There are children with terminal cancer. But the universe cannot revolve around any of those children so they cannot "deserve", no matter anyone's emotions.
I cannot "deserve" a single breath of oxygen I've ever had or will ever have because the universe has no opinion on those breaths of oxygen just like it doesn't how much cancer I have or don't have. There is no budget on breaths of oxygen or terminal cancer or food or starvation that we can be over or under. This is how the idea of "deserving" is obviously a myth that only egomaniacs subscribe to.
"Deserving" is humbug and we'd be better people if we threw it on the garbage heap. But we won't.. since we are egomaniacs. I mean, face it, we are the only things on this planet that either shake our fist at the Sun, going "WE DESERVE YOUR LIGHT!", or fall on our knees, going "WE WILL TRY TO BE GOOD TO DESERVE YOUR LIGHT!" Either way, it amounts to the same thing, thinking the universe notices you and keeps a budget on you.
_"That's part of why emotions run so high for victims rather than wrongdoers."_
There's no such thing as "wrongdoers", that's _another_ myth connected with typical human egomania. I can butcher a million people like Jack The Ripper or nuke the entire planet, the universe doesn't label that correct or incorrect behavior.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps Jesus fucking christ. Listen edgelord master, it's just part of being human, if you can't accept that go shit up someone else's place
As a Swede who was 16 when this happened and knew a fair bit before the show I was just as affected as Vkunia. If you don't have an emotional respons to Chernobyl then apologies are in order but she has nothing to apologise for. All three reactions to this series have been great.
I'm a couple of years younger than the director who is a fellow Swede. If you want something a bit less depressing here is his breakthrough music video were he sings under the name "Stakka Bo" czcams.com/video/sGNK-cOtxSs/video.html
Yes, I had the same reaction. I felt physically bad after watching this show. Each episode.
Shcherbina wouldn’t have been afraid of the KGB. The KGB reported to the Central Committee, of which Shcherbina was a member. If anything, the director of the KGB would’ve been afraid of him
2:09 cocking no it’s more like turning to mush cell by cell as they burst one by one
Hope you are having an great and awesome weekend 😀
Yeah, time to cry part 3
No need for apologies, I'm pretty sure we all had similar reactions watching this ( I still get tears in my eyes when I watch reactions to this show)
the most anxiety inducing show i ever watched.
Make sure you have a box of tissues for the next one
I am worried how the next episode is going to affect you. Imo, it’s the roughest one to watch.
I think you will find episode 4 the toughest, like Band of Brothers: Why we Fight tough
The coal minister never went down to personally order the miners to go. It went through the proper channels. And the minister himself was not the thin office rat shown here. He was a miner himself in the past and looked the part. He’d never disrespect those like him
Incredible makeup in this episode.
What a beautiful cat! 🐈
Great video.
At this point, take a moment to silently thank Police, Emergency and Military personnel for doing what needs to be done, even if it means their death.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!!!
I heard Natalie Gold give you a shout out on an old video from when you were having copyright issues about 3 years ago. I really like both her and the person who she recommended called ItsaPrimate that I already subscride to so I thought I'd give you a chance. I figured I'd start with Chernobyl then onto Craig Mazin's next, and most recent project: The Last of Us which I've watched a few walk throughs of the game online after watching the show since I'm jot a gamer. I've watched a LOT of reactions and am looking forward to seeing you do yours.
Oh my god that cat is BEAUTIFUL!!!
It will be hard, but please finish the series. One suggestion I would make, please make a separate video for the epilogue. It's less than 10 minutes and I think most people would appreciate being able to see your full reaction to it.
They only show facts that Vicky already knows. I don't think that's worth an extra video.
I can't wait for you to watch the last episode of this series
02:32 From waht I've read, seh did not in fact touch him. Dramatic license, like teh view from his hospital room which DID show Red Square.
06:23 Lugasov was already married.
YOur reaction does you credit. In so many ways.
But teh next episode...just...hurts so much.
Here's a suggestion, after Chernobyl - if you can track down "Aquarium: a spy's loneliness" (the 4-episode version, not the single film version - the series has additional scenes). It's a Polish series based on the novel by ex-GRU spy Viktor Suvorov on how the spies were recruited, and trained in the Soviet Union.
And for something lighthearted, watch Sexmission - a 1984 Polish comedy, strike that - a 1984 Polish satire of the socialist regime disguised as a light-hearted comedy to get it past censorship.
Sexmission is my favorite Polish movie^^
Originally the prosthetic effects they were going to use were even more gruesome than what they showed. It was too much for TV.